# Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots — A Magnificent App for Mastodon

> Mastodon client with advanced features, customization, and smooth performance. (iPhone/iPad app by Tapbots.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tapbots](https://appshunter.io/developer/293642940)
- Category: Social Networking, News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 3,917 App Store ratings · 346 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 16.1 · 152 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2023-01-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274/reviews.md

## What is Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots?

Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first. Download and experience it for yourself. If you liked Tweetbot, you’ll love Ivory!

We are very excited about the future of Ivory and have so many great plans for it. Here’s what you can expect in Ivory now:

	⁃	Beautiful visual and sound design
	⁃	Blazing fast performance and super smooth scrolling
	⁃	Many theme and app icon options
	⁃	Support for multiple accounts
	⁃	Create and view content warnings
	⁃	Create and participate in polls
	⁃	Easily search for and post gifs
	⁃	Customizable push notifications and viewable notifications tab
	⁃	View post statistics for the day and graph for the week in the stats tab
	⁃	Powerful mute filters with regex support
	⁃	Ability to follow hashtags and create hashtag lists
	⁃	Bookmark posts to refer back to privately
	⁃	View local and federated timelines as well as trending posts
	⁃	Powerful timeline filters to quickly show/hide posts of different criteria
	⁃	Never lose your place in the timeline across Ivory on multiple devices including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

-- Subscription Details --

• Monthly and annual subscriptions are available
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
• Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period
• Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription
• Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase

Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://tapbots.net/ivory/privacy/

## Key features

- Beautiful visual and sound design
- Blazing fast performance
- Multiple account support
- Content warnings and polls
- GIF search and posting
- Customizable push notifications
- Powerful mute and timeline filters

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ivory iOS + iPadOS Yearly Sub | $14.99 | per year |
| Ivory iOS + iPadOS Monthly Sub | $1.99 | per month |
| iOS, iPadOS + macOS Yearly Sub | $24.99 | per year |
| macOS, iOS + iPadOS Yearly Sub | $24.99 | per year |
| Ivory for macOS Monthly Sub | $1.99 | per month |
| Ivory for macOS Yearly Sub | $14.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Smooth and fast performance
- 👍 Familiar and intuitive interface
- 🔒 Robust security and privacy features
- 💡 Excellent integration with Mastodon
- 🎨 Beautiful and customizable design
- 🤝 Reliable sync between devices

**Cons**

- 🔒 Paid subscription required for basic functionality
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 💰 Relatively high subscription cost compared to free alternatives
- 🔍 Limited search and discovery features

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Inconsistent behavior when scrolling to top of timeline
- Issues with muting and filtering functionality

**Most requested features**

- Ability to edit and delete posts
- Support for more Mastodon features like hashtag tracking
- Improved notification and moderation tools
- Misskey and other Fediverse platform support

## Recent user reviews (10 of 346)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Delightful to use

*2026-08-12, version 2.5.2*

Ivory is a great Mastodon client. Super easy to use, smooth scrolling of your timeline, easy to follow threads.

### 1/5 — Deceptive

*2026-07-24, version 2.5.2*

It is not free and one of the quotes on the website said: ”If you use Mastodon on a Mac, you’re nuts if you don’t try Ivory.“ This is very deceptive and just a way to earn money out of your users. I would be fine if it was a one-time payment, but get off the App Store. You’re nothing but a nuisance to free users.

### 5/5 — Best client for best platform

*2026-07-15, version 2.5.2*

I love Ivory

### 2/5 — Good luck figuring it out—there’s no instruction manual!

*2026-07-14, version 2.5.2*

Honestly, Ice Cubes is free and is nearly identical and functionality to Ivory. If I’m actually paying for an app, then I expect it to have good documentation.

All their site has some bare minimum FAQs. There are certain things in the app that I just don’t understand and wonder what they do, but there’s no place to look it up.

I definitely won’t be renewing my subscription. I might even switch back to Ice Cubes in the meantime.

They say you can write them and ask for help but like that takes time. Why can’t they just have a website so I can look it up if I have a question. Do they really want to be bombarded with emails and go back-and-forth with customer support forever?

### 5/5 — Lovely

*2026-07-11, version 2.5.2*

I wish it wasn’t a subscription but this is genuinely a beautiful app

### 4/5 — Very good; point off for lack of Markdown

*2026-07-03, version 2.5.2*

Lovely experience, but I have to jump into a rival app to check my Markdown's displaying correctly. Still use this, though.

### 2/5 — Good enough

*2026-05-28*

The app is good looking and work mostly fine. But is common to open it and the feeed doesn’t update and the pull feature also doesn’t work. It looks like it doesn’t trigger the update. So often I need to use other and free apps to have  access to the data.

### 5/5 — Terrific, reliable app

*2026-05-21, version 2.5.2*

Ivory is the definitive example of a great iOS app: beautifully thought out, intuitive, fast, and a pleasure to use. Ivory makes Mastodon fun.

### 4/5 — Very beautiful app missing key (for me) features

*2026-04-30, version 2.5.2*

Gorgeous interface, robust settings. I just cannot live without threaded conversation view; I cannot follow conversations properly without it. 

The other feature I missed from a different app I’ve used was a dedicated tab for private messages (a kind of inbox). I like being able to view those separately from other mentions. These two things are very important to me so I ended up going back to my old app, despite the fact it’s a bit glitchy with the timeline fetch right now.

### 3/5 — Feed refreshes while scrolling.

*2026-04-21, version 2.5.1*

The Achilles heel of this app is how the feed will refresh while in the middle of scrolling.  More often than not I’ll be scrolling, reading a post or about to click on a post and the feed will 
auto refresh and jump to the beginning rendering the post I was interested in lost to the ether.

It’s by far the most frustrating aspect of this app and it impacts the user experience in a very negative way.

If this were fixed it would be a much better app.

## Frequently asked questions about Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

### What does Ivory for Mastodon do?

Ivory is a mobile application designed to provide a superior user experience for the Mastodon decentralized social network. It offers a clean interface, fast performance, and a wide array of features to enhance browsing and posting.

### What are the key features of Ivory for Mastodon?

Key features include beautiful design, fast performance, support for multiple accounts, content warnings, polls, GIF integration, customizable notifications, post statistics, powerful mute filters, and timeline filters. It also allows following hashtags and bookmarking posts.

### How much does Ivory for Mastodon cost?

Ivory for Mastodon operates on a subscription model, offering both monthly and annual subscription options. Payment is handled through your iTunes account, and subscriptions can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings.

### What devices is Ivory for Mastodon compatible with?

The app is designed to work seamlessly across multiple devices, including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This ensures you can maintain your place in timelines and access your account from various platforms.

### Who would benefit from using Ivory for Mastodon?

This app is ideal for active users of the Mastodon social network who desire a more refined and feature-rich experience than the default web interface or other basic clients. It's particularly suited for those who appreciate good design and advanced customization options.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.5.2 — 2026-04-26

- Added  Enhanced Card Previews setting to improve missing or incomplete link previews.
- Improved link preview layouts, including better text-only cards when preview images are unavailable.
- Improved quote and card layout behavior in timeline and detail.

### 2.5.1 — 2026-04-02

Fixed some swipe back issues.
Fixed an issue where the Poll vote button could appear enabled even when no option was selected.
Fixed custom emoji occasionally stretching at the end of wrapped lines.

### 2.5 — 2026-03-26

- Added support for audio media playback.
- Added support for posting audio files (You can pick image, video, or audio files from the “Files” option in the Gear menu).
- Added support for Mastodon's rich text posts (federated from non-Mastodon servers; not yet creatable on Mastodon itself).
- New Gesture options in settings. Allows you to configure all 4 swipe gestures.

### 2.4.1 — 2026-01-13

- Bug fixes

### 2.4 — 2026-01-06

- Added support for native quotes (requires Mastodon server 4.5 or later).
- Improved the post detail view so that it attempts to fetch more replies and post metadata. Added a loading indicator and refresh button.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*
